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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … about products, and to support product affordability.   In this Briefing, we describe how the commercial milk formula … feeding and has many short-and long-term health benefits. In New Zealand, only 17-22% of infants are exclusively … at maternity discharge are higher than the national average. 10 The milk formula industry harms Papatūānuku: the …
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  • Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19

    … symptoms. The virus has been eliminated by these PHSMs in large parts of the globe, including countries with large … vaccines were deployed more rapidly than any other vaccine in the past. Together, these two advances suggest that … measles elimination. We consider this question briefly in this blog and then consider the potential role for …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … In this blog we raise ideas for how New Zealand might optimise testing to both identify cases in the community as part of the COVID-19 elimination … from the country. These are urgent issues to clarify in order to minimise time spent under lockdown conditions and …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … Summary In this Briefing we apply 'downward counterfactual analysis' … range and depth of future disaster mitigation efforts. In February 2023, Cyclone Gabrielle did massive damage around … economic cost is estimated to up to $14.5 billion. 4 In this Briefing we apply a relatively novel process to …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … are beneficial to cardiovascular health.  But actually in research circles this ‘fact’ is hotly contested. In this … study of 400,000 European adults followed up for an average 13 years that reports a seemingly J-shape association … (e.g. injury), and should be differentiated from ‘average’ consumption. And the J-shaped graph should not …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … Policy Index) was recently conducted for the fourth time in Aotearoa New Zealand to benchmark government policies … international best practice, but New Zealand falls short in many areas including for healthy food and drinks in all schools, fiscal policies influencing food costs, and …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … Here comes the next big battle in nutrition: SUGAR. Yesterday, the World Health Organization … anticipated guidelines on sugar intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on … harm of sugar, and then pull back to consider the diet in total. There are many other aspects to the “sugar wars” …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … Shaw and Associate Professor Simon Hales Editor note: In this Blog, Caroline Shaw and Simon Hales reflect on the … “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector ”. The transport sector globally … 23% of carbon emissions (about 16% of gross emissions in New Zealand ). This is largely dominated by the use of …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … A study in the NZ Medical Journal shows how public spending on health … of taxpayer funds for preventing and treating ill health. In this blog we detail the main findings of this study and … due to people living longer.  That is, if we use just average citizen costs by year of age today applied to the …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … bold ‘endgame’ goal” [1]. The goal’s origins were in Māori led advocacy to address the harms that tobacco … goal by the 2010 Māori Affairs Select Committee [2]; in 2011, the then National-led Government adopted the goal, … goals e.g. Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. In recognition of its origins, equity considerations and …
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